After everything those titans have already taken from us, we refuse to let them deprive us of the enjoyment of a peaceful evening. The company of comrades who have been with us through hell and back. We savor every moment we are permitted to just to be ourselves. We get a taste of what life could be, without the terrors that lurk beyond the walls.

I want to take this opportunity to say that my friends and family have thankfully been safe from the effects of Typhoon Haiyan/Yolanda in our part of the Philippines. I've been receiving a lot of messages regarding that, and I really appreciate your concern. We're okay here, but the same can't be said for a lot of people.

As I had written about a while back, my friends and I felt that maybe it was time to finally accept print requests as a means of being a fundraiser after the devastation of parts of our country from Typhoon Haiyan. We had been setting up these elaborate photoshoots recently just for fun and out of our love for the series we cosplay, but an opportunity has presented itself for us to turn them into something more meaningful.

Free!'s first season ended yesterday and it was all I could see all over my dashboard on tumblr XD In lieu of that I thought I would post what might be my last Haruka shot from our photoshoot we did in the spring. Seems like it wasn't that long ago that we did this shoot, but since then the series has run it's course through it's first season. Time flies!